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Public interest law grads now get LexisNexis for free

May 15, 2009

In response to feedback (including some from yours truly) from bloggers, students and law school administrators, LexisNexis has expanded the free legal research services it is providing to law school graduates doing work for the public good.
Kudos to LexisNexis for the quick turn-around.
Last week the company was offering free legal research services through its new [...]

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Bluebook abbreviations reference

March 3, 2009

I do my best to follow the Bluebook in my legal writing, but I do not carry it with me everywhere I go. While working on a brief last night, I needed to double-check the proper abbreviations for several court documents, so I looked around a bit and found some handy Bluebook “reminders” on ASU [...]

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Link roundup

November 13, 2008

Some things I haven’t had time to write about from the last few weeks:

Synkron Syncs Files and Folders Across Platforms | Lifehacker
GIMP Tricks Everyone Should Know | Lifehacker
THIS is Why Solos Must Learn Technology and Think Globally | Build a Solo Practice, LLC
Zotero: The Next-Generation Research Tool | Futurelawyer
First Look: Microsoft Office Heads Online with [...]

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LexisNexis has gone paperless

August 25, 2008

Kudos to LexisNexis for its efforts to reduce paper waste! At a moot court orientation session at the University of Minnesota Law School this morning, the LexisNexis rep showed up and—this blew me away—did not hand out a single sheet of paper.
The Westlaw rep, meanwhile, made a huge book available. Mercifully, they did not pass [...]

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Minnlawpedia, a user-generated repository of Minnesota law and procedure for the non-lawyer

February 20, 2008

The legal system and Web 2.0 still seem largely unaware of one another, although that is starting to change as lawyers and consumers make inreasing use of sites like Avvo, Facebook, Wikipediaand mypractice to find lawyers, to network, and to get information about the law.
With that in mind, I created Minnlawpedia, a wiki where [...]

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Lexis is willing to drop its arbitration clause

January 31, 2008

Lexis has an atrocious mandatory binding arbitration clause in its contracts. Consumer Law & Policy Blog’s Paul Bland described Lexis’s arbitration clause this way:
Lexis’s arbitration clause includes a gag order on its customers requiring tem to keep all arbitrations confidential. A number of courts have struck down similar secrecy provisions in consumer arbitration clauses as [...]

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All federal courts to make transcripts available online

September 20, 2007

All federal court transcripts will not be available to the public online through PACER (at $.08/page) within 90 days of delivery to the court clerk. That’s pretty darn affordable. That is pretty cheap compared to what I am used to paying for transcripts, so this is great news, both for lawyers and for the public.
Here’s [...]

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MSBA offers members free access to FastCase

September 5, 2007

The Minnesota State Bar Associate today started offering free access to FastCase. FastCase got a mention here earlier this year. I gave it a test run yesterday for a brief I was writing, and really enjoyed using it. It is more simple than using Westlaw or Lexis, but returns good results in a fast and [...]

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AltLaw.org: another free caselaw repository

August 22, 2007

Hot on the heels of my mention of public.resource.org yesterday, another free caselaw repository was brought to my attention. AltLaw.org, which is in beta, purports to allow users to search the full text of decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court and of the U.S. circuit courts.

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Carl Malamud is my hero

August 21, 2007

The laws of any nation are, by definition, open source. The developers–courts and legislators–release their source code regularly so that users of the legal system can use it, test it, and report bugs.
None of this works, however, if users of the legal system do not have access to law and court decisions. Carl Malamud styles [...]

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